[plug] KDE licence (was Debian was Mandrake)

[russ]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, russ wrote:
> > Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > > > russ wrote:
> > > > > Is KDE illegally licensed? I thought that was all sorted?
> > > Have you read the GPL recently? It is pretty clear that it _does_not_ give
> > > you permission to link to non-GPLed software.
> > I thought KDE was LGPL, which allows that?
> Which is exactly the problem. KDE uses code that was licensed to the KDE
> people under the GPL, thus _requiring_ that KDE be licensed only under the
> terms of the GPL. The LGPL will not suffice in this instance.

What code does it use that's GPL? 

Is linux GPL?



> 
> -Greg

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Regards
russ

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